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Tony Han
EducationBachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University

Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Rhode Island

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Known forSelf-driving car
TitleThe founder and CEO of WeRide

Tony Han is the founder and CEO of WeRide (Chinese: 文远知行),[1][2] an autonomous driving technology company established in 2017[3]. WeRide went public on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: WRD)[4] in 2024, becoming the world's first universal autonomous driving and robotaxi stock.[5] It currently has offices in San Jose, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen[6]. As of June 2025, WeRide tests and operates its autonomous vehicles in over 30 cities across 10 countries[7]. Its products hold driverless permits in China, the US, the UAE, Singapore and France.[6][8][9][3][10]

Education

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Han holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign[11]. He also received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University in 1998 and 2000 respectively[12].

Career

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Han began his career as a tenured professor at the University of Missouri[13] and director of the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab[14].

He later joined Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab as a founding member[15], leading the development of DeepSpeech2[16], a deep learning-based speech recognition system which was named one of MIT Technology Review's Top 10 Technology Breakthroughs of 2016[17]. In 2016, Han served as the chief scientist of Baidu's Autonomous Driving Division[18][15], leading the perception, simulation, sensor and hardware teams.

In 2017, Han left Baidu to co-found WeRide[19], an autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Guangzhou, China. He has been serving as the company's founder and CEO.

Awards

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  • 2025 - 2024 Leaders in Technology and Innovation by Forbes China[20]
  • 2024 - Top 30 Pioneers Go-International Series Selection by Forbes China[21]
  • 2016 - Top 10 Technology Breakthroughs of 2016 by MIT Technology Review[17]

References

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  1. ^ Tan, Dawn Wei (2024-11-22). "PM Lee starts week-long China visit". https://www.straitstimes.com/. Retrieved 2025-06-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  2. ^ "Safety paramount, two or three tragic accidents could destroy the whole industry: WeRide CEO". https://www.cnbc.com/. 2025-04-24. Retrieved 2025-06-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  3. ^ a b "WeRide and its "triangle": striving in the autonomous driving battlefield". autonews.gasgoo.com. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  4. ^ StockTitan (2024-10-28). "The World's First IPO of Universal Autonomous Driving Technology Company! WeRide Officially Listed on Nasdaq". StockTitan. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  5. ^ Inc, WeRide. "The World's First IPO of Universal Autonomous Driving Technology Company! WeRide Officially Listed on Nasdaq". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2025-06-05. {{cite press release}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ a b Liao, Rita (2022-01-14). "China's robotaxis charged ahead in 2021". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  7. ^ "WeRide Announces Plan to Expand Commercial Robotaxi Services to 15 Additional Cities Globally". Morningstar, Inc. 2025-05-21. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  8. ^ "MSN". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  9. ^ "China Publishes First Robotaxi Passenger Survey Report". That's Online. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  10. ^ "WeRide Gets China's First Permit to Test Fully Autonomous Vehicles". www.yicaiglobal.com. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  11. ^ Tony X. Han. IEEE Xplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37286933200. Retrieved 2025-06-09. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ "景驰科技公司联合创始人韩旭教授返校并举办科技前沿报告会". Beijing Jiaotong University. 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  13. ^ Milken Institute. "Global Conference 2019, Tony Han". Milken Institute. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  14. ^ Milken Institute (2019). "Global Conference 2019, Tony Han". Milken Institute. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  15. ^ a b "CNBC Events - Tony Han, WeRide". https://www.cnbcevents.com/. Retrieved 2025-06-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  16. ^ "智驾周刊Tony Han加盟百度无人车 | 初创公司 Zoox 估值超10亿美元". https://www.toutiao.com/. 05-06-2015. Retrieved 17-06-2025. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help); External link in |website= (help)
  17. ^ a b "China's edge on AI comes from its countless dialects and data". https://partners.wsj.com/. Retrieved 2025-06-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  18. ^ "中国超级独角兽文远知行，赴美IPO了". The Paper. 2024-07-30. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  19. ^ "20 Things You Didn't Know about WeRide". https://moneyinc.com/. 2021-05-20. Retrieved 2025-06-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  20. ^ "活动｜打造产业新格局：2024福布斯中国科创人物评选结果重磅发布". https://baijiahao.baidu.com/. 2025-04-10. Retrieved 2025-06-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  21. ^ ""全球Robotaxi第一股"文远知行出海成绩斐然，韩旭成"出海领军人物"". Baidu via 大皖新闻. 02-12-2024. Retrieved 2025-06-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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